The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 17th, 2003
Carolyn Heilbrun, 77 Feminist scholar, author
Friday, October 17, 2003
New York -- Carolyn Heilbrun, a feminist scholar of English literature who also wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Amanda Cross, has died. She was 77.
Heilbrun, who had written that living after the age of 70 should be a choice, apparently committed suicide at her home in Manhattan.
Heilbrun, a retired professor at Columbia University, specialized in modern British literature.
Her works included "Toward a Recognition of Androgyny," "Reinventing Womanhood" and "Writing a Woman's Life," and she wrote numerous aca...
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